Job Purpose
To plan, organize and evaluate an innovative health visiting service, and where appropriate, delegate to other members of the health visiting team to ensure delivery of a high-quality service

To provide a skilled, effective and evidence-based health visiting service to clients in a variety of community settings.

Monday to Friday ,Condensed hours Tuesday to Friday

To work in collaboration with other health care and service providers to ensure seamless delivery of services for clients and communities

To collaborate with team colleagues in order to deliver the Quality Strategy objectives.

The post holder will be responsible for:

Clinical

Quality and Performance

Management and Leadership

Professionalism

Training and Teaching

Main duties of the job

To contribute to the undertaking and reporting of performance measures, alerting Team Leads of any shortfalls

Ensure the timely and correct entry of clinical and statistical data onto electronic patient records and systems as required by the Trust

To support the Team Lead with the delivery of the CSU Quality Strategy action plan

To actively seek out the voice of the client/child

To report all near misses/incidents on the Trust wide system

To attend a quality meeting e.g., PSRG once a year

To actively participate in clinical and safeguarding supervision on a regular basis in line with organisational guidelines.

To provide clinical supervision to others in line with Trust policy.

Actively participate in the learning from incidents/complaints e.g., 7-minute briefings

About us

CLCH NHS Trust is currently re-shaping the way Health Visitors work, looking at new and innovative practices to improve health across London. This includes agile working and provision of laptops to all staff.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Deliver the healthy child programme and work in partnership with families to develop and agree tailored health plans as required

Utilising specialist skills and knowledge, advise and support individuals and families on evidence-based health care practices.

Understand the caseload profile including the health needs of the defined population and local communities, targeting outreach services to meet their needs.

Initiate referrals to multi-disciplinary/agency colleagues as required to ensure adequate care and support for families and children

Assess, plan, implement and evaluate individual/group programmes of care that meet the public health needs of the population

To develop and delegate appropriately the implementation of regular health promotion initiatives on specific health issues and to specific groups and individuals.

To facilitate the promotion of the national immunisation programme to ensure maximum possible protection against disease.

To provide care and attention to the needs of children identified as at risk and / or with complex needs, taking appropriate action when required.

Person Specification

Education/Qualification Essential

Essential

• Registered Nurse/Registered Midwife
• Registered Health Visitor (SCPHN)
• Current NMC registration
• Practice assessor/supervisor training or working towards

Experience

Essential

• Experience
• Be able to co-ordinate health promotion initiatives in line with local and national health improvement targets
• Experience of working collaboratively as part of a multidisciplinary team and inter-agency working
• Experience of organising and managing own workload and that of others

Skills & Knowledge

Essential

• Knowledge of recent developments in primary care
• Knowledge of current health legislation [including Change for Children agenda, Children's Plan etc.)
• Knowledge of quality issues, the audit process and clinical governance
• Motivated to learn and develop to meet the needs of the service oWillingness to facilitate and support the learning of others in the practice environment

Employer details

Employer name

Central London Community Health Trust

Address

Parkview Health and wellbeing Center

56 Cranston Court, Bloemfotein Road

Various

W12 7FG

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